An untold number of Christians were among nearly 1,000 civilians massacred in renewed violence on Syria’s western coast before the government announced a ceasefire.
As a measure targeting child marriages in Pakistan languishes in political limbo, girls as young as 10 in minority religious groups continue to be abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry or sold into sex slavery.
Even though an Indonesian congregation’s construction plan has the support of local residents, the building project is encountering unexpected pushback.
The “blasphemy business group’s” actions are “said to have ensnared more than 400 innocent people, including Christians, in a surge of false blasphemy cases in the last two years,” the news sources say.
Fifteen more Nigerian Christians have been killed as factions opposed to believers continue their massacres and wreak havoc upon churches and communities.
In January, Kyrgyzstan’s president signed a new religion law that further represses faith communities by limiting their existence, worship and literature and prohibiting public witnessing.
More than 9 in 10 U.S. Protestant pastors (93%) say their church has engaged in at least one of six ways to bring attention to Christians suffering persecution within the past year, according to a Lifeway Research study.
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